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Nice one ...

I had to go on a non-fiction binge after Art of Fielding. I wasn't quite ready for another novel.

I may have mentioned this before around here but years ago my friend's brother took some guitar lessons from Richard Lloyd. Despite my love of Television, I somehow heard this as Christopher Lloyd. For several months I went around thinking that it was cool that the guy from Taxi and the Back to the Future movies also gave guitar lessons.

Really looking forward to this (and the show in Boston).

One of my all-time faves. (I think the re-releases with all of the extra tracks actually distract from the greatness of the original, though ...)

via Paste Magazine Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum Announces Massive U.S. Tour Published at 2:05 PM on November 12, 2012 By Shaina Pearlman Andy Dwyer better be careful, Neutral Milk Hotel’s Jeff Mangum has announced a solo U.S. acoustic tour and one of the stops is close to fictional Pawnee, Ind. The Neutral Milk Hotel’s website released a statement on its site earlier today, saying: “hello friends in a flock of finches unfolding from the face of a foam horse on the phone toinform you that jeff is heading out for one last u.s. acoustic tour, giving him the chance to p

I know a handful of hardcore Democrats whose facebook page showed them "liking" Romney. Here is a piece from the Boston Globe about it: http://www.boston.com/politicalintelligence/2012/11/01/some-facebook-users-dislike-being-used-online-advertising-for-mitt-romney/4HAxE8p7s9vlrnDgufqW9J/story.html

Just got back from the movie. Wow - what a story! I definitely need to track down some of his music.

When I need a fill of cute, I go back to this one:

Westerberg's Come Feel Me tremble documentary (all 90 minutes of it) is available on youtube:

Three that I haven't seen mentioned (but might have missed): Dig! - about Brian Jonestown Massacre and Dandy Warhols Tell Me Do You Miss Me - about Luna Even if you don't love their music (and I love Luna but am mixed on BJM and DW) I found these interesting because they are about bands on the fringe trying to make it. There are a lot of bands like Luna that are big enough to keep at it but not big enough to be comfortable doing it full time. Third one isn't technically a documentary, although it sort of feels like one: 24 Hour Party People (about the Manchester music scene of the 198

Galaxie 500 - Tugboat I don't wanna stay at your party I don't wanna talk to your friends I don't wanna vote for your president I just wanna be your tugboat captain

The first Dead-related show I ever went to was JGB in the summer of 1980 and the Tangled Up In Blue from that night (keyboards and all) remains one of my favorite live songs I've ever seen.

People have been telling me to read this for years. I finally picked up a copy over the weekend and just started it - and it is great.

Not sure I understand your comment PopTodd ...

If I hadn't just finished a book about Yo La Tengo, I'd probably read this right away. I'm sure I'll read it at some point because those guys were pretty important to me for a while.

Yes, it was the ICA thing. It was both great and disappointing. I enjoyed the movie and their soundtrack was really fantastic. I was in the front row so they were right there. But it was only a little over an hour and it was frustrating knowing YLT were there and I couldn't see more of them ...

Report: Carlton Fisk arrested for DUI in Illinois corn field TMZ reports that Carlton Fisk was arrested last night and charged with a DUI in Illinois. TMZ talked to a police source who said the Hall of Fame catcher was “driving his truck into the middle of a corn field” at around 7:00 p.m. and was asleep at the wheel next to a bottle of vodka when officers arrived. Fisk refused a blood alcohol test and the 64-year-old was released from jail this morning. For more details, including Fisk’s mugshot, read the full story on TMZ.com.

Chatted very briefly with Ira and Georgia from Yo La Tengo the other night. They seem like very decent people.

Well this will all be settled on Wednesday when Donald Trump reveals his "very big" news about Obama: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/82701.html

Agreed - they are totally awesome. I wish we had a Freewheelin show afterwards but there was another showing of the movie. It was a tease to only see them do the music to the movie. When I walked in the venue Ira and Georgia were sitting at the merch table selling CDs. I did a double take because I wasn't expecting that, and then I went over and chatted with them for a bit.

Yo La Tengo doing a live soundtrack to a documentary film about Buckminster Fuller.

60 Watt Silver Lining was one of my standard late late night or early Sunday morning records for a while.

How is that? I used to listen to this one a ton but I hadn't listened to it in a couple of years before putting it on the other day:

I saw them a bunch of times in the late 1980s and throught they were OK. Didn't love 'em but didn't hate them either. I saw them again in 1991 or 1992 and thought they were a band on their last gasps. I remember predicting that they would break up within six months. Instead, six months later Grave Dancer's Union came out and suddently they were on SNL and Pirner was dating Winona Ryder. Shows what a good judge I am ...